yes this is true --- There should be working mechanisms because as you pointed out without them it's a hollow commitment. What the Cybercrime convention does: it says that countries have to cooperate within existing mechanisms (bilateral, multilateral) that were established outside this Convention. So the convention provides the commitment but the countries have to use the channels they have. This is probably going to be fixed if the Second additional protocol is adopted.

Source author: Tatiana Tropina tatiana.tropina@gmail.com